Tag: Alabama Crimson Tide
College football’s 10 best backup quarterbacks: LSU, SMU among teams with strong QB2 options in 2025
Building depth at the quarterback position in college football is almost impossible in the transfer portal era. It’s rare that a quality backup actually sticks around, especially since — if they’re good enough — they can go somewhere that they’re promised a more immediate starting spot. So quality backup quarterbacks are an invaluable commodity. Teams…
College Football Playoff X-factors: Players poised to make or break contenders’ 2025 postseason chances
Even with the expanded format, a lot has to go right for teams to punch their tickets to the College Football Playoff. One factor can make or break a postseason push, like the Miami defense did last season when the Hurricanes fell just short of their playoff debut. Ahead of the 2025 season, every CFP…
Big Ten, SEC stalemate headlines College Football Playoff meetings with strength-of-schedule metrics in focus
Whether tweaks to the College Football Playoff selection process will be enough to stave off a switch to an automatic qualifier-heavy model will be at the heart of discussions this week in Asheville, North Carolina, when 10 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director meet. The meetings, which begin Tuesday and run until Wednesday afternoon,…
College football’s 25 most dynamic players of the past 25 years: Reggie Bush, Cam Newton lead memorable group
Settle in for a minute or two and try to recall the most memorable plays over the course of your college football fandom. Sure, many of these are likely team-specific, but a betting man would place odds on several highlights seared in your brain coming from a few of the greatest dynamos of all-time whose…
Kierston Russell, twin sister of Alabama 5-star QB Keelon Russell, dies at 18
Getty Images Kierston Russell, the twin sister of Alabama quarterback and five-star recruit Keelon Russell, died Wednesday, Tuscaloosa police confirmed in a statement. She was 18. Capt. Jack Kennedy of the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Unit said the investigation is ongoing and that Russell’s death appears to be non-criminal in nature. Because it…